Animal Testing

I refer to the article by Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen. Mr Yuen extols the role that Hong Kong plays as an international legal service centre. In that context, I would urge him to look into the area of sovereign immunity.

A controversy has raged over media reports about a couple of scientists in the United States experimenting on gay sheep and studying what makes them hormonally gay. Media, animal rights groups and gay activists have been in a frenzy over what the research implies.

A group of monkeys pulled their injured companion off a country road yesterday in an apparent act of compassion witnessed by a motorcyclist who knocked the animal down.

The act of animal courage was played out on Tai Po Road at about 8.15 am, police said, when the motorcyclist, a 45-year-old woman, was heading towards Kowloon. The accident happened near Villa Carlton.